Columns
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Literary Fiction’s Dilemma
If literary fiction offers an alternative to more mainstream “narratives of reassurance,” can the oft-cited moral experiment of Heinz’s Dilemma help us understand why such challenging work isn’t more popular?
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Notable Los Angeles: 8/17-8/23
Saturday 8/17: PoetryPalooza presents The Claremont Forum and Prison Library Project. Featuring poetry readings by Treesje Powers, Vickie Vertiz, Kenji C. Liu, Rachelle Cruz, Nicky Sa-eun Schildkraut, Bob Covington, and Zzyzx WriterZ. The event also includes a workshop and open…
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Imperial Nostalgias by Joshua Edwards
Carleen Tibbetts reviews Joshua Edwards’ Imperial Nostalgias today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Links I Like
On Monday night at 826LA, J. Ryan Stradal and McSweeney’s organized a reading to celebrate Lucy Corin’s One Hundred Apocalypses and Victoria Chang’s The Boss. Those two books are now on my to-read list. Although that to-read list gets longer…
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THE NEW YORK COMICS SYMPOSIUM: NATHAN BULMER AND CONNIE SUN
The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work.
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The Rumpus Interview with Literary Disco
Julia Pistell, Rider Strong, and Tod Goldberg—writers and the hosts of the podcast Literary Disco—talk with us about the show’s origin story, book criticism in the age of social media, and their upcoming live podcast.
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Photogenic Alchemy: Instagram for the Mad Scientist
If you ever wanted to be either a photographer or a mad scientist when you grew up, you may be jealous of how New York artist Matthew Cetta has been spending his time lately. For his current project, Photogenic Alchemy,…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Why hello there new adorable mammal. Let’s all check out some of the new UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Moving sidewalks are (yesterday’s) the future! A brief history of “hello”. Here are some great spiders for you.
